You’re massively underestimating the upper bound.
I’ve interacted a bunch recently with members of a group of about 2 million people who recite a 245-word creed twice daily, and assemble weekly to read from an 80,000 word text such that the whole text gets read annually. This is nowhere near a complete accounting of engagement with verbal canon within the group. Each of these practices is preceded and followed by an additional standardized text of substantial length, and many people study full-time a much larger canonical text claiming to interpret the core text.
They also engage in behavior patterns that, while they don’t necessarily reflect detailed engagement by each person with the content of the core text, do reflect a lot of fine-grained responsiveness to the larger interpretive canon.
You might be closer for what can be done very quickly (within a single generation) under current conditions. But a political movement plenty of people are newly worried about which likely has thousands of members has a 14-word creed.
To positively reinforce CFAR for finally posting this, I’m going to give $750 before the end of 2013. This is separate from my matching funds pledge—treat it like any other donation.
In addition my employer should match that, for a total of $1,500, or $3,000 when you count the fundraiser’s match of both.
UPDATE: Donation made. I’ll request the employer match in the next few days.
UPDATE2: Employer match requested